“Everything not forbidden is compulsory.”
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
“Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!”— Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
“Because there is joy in embracing – rather than running screaming from – the utter absurdity of life.”
— Jenny Lawson
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir)
“Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.”
